The story of Enron is probably the most notable, epic failure in the history of corporate bankruptcies. It took the company ten years to grow from $10 billion in assets to over $65 billion in assets, yet took a mere twenty-four days for them to go bankrupt. While many books, articles, and documentaries blame the Enron’s demise on its leaders, the company’s culture, accounting practices, or deregulations from the government, the employees are also to blame. Consequently, the employees’…
From an early age, many are intensely interested in voyeurism, fetishism, and sado-masochistic pornography. These are some clues that at a young age a murderers mind starts to evolve. The victims of murders usually have the same kind of way or something in common like their race, appearance, age or sex. Most serial killers are very intelligent and know what they are doing. Psychology is the science and study of human behavior and mental processes. Also, it is the study of human minds and its…
Deep Look Into A Serial Killer’s Mind Purpose: To inform Thesis: A serial killer is a person who attacks and kills victims one by one in a series of incidents, usually more than three. Introduction: Often, people do not take time to look into what a serial killer really is and what it does, and why the US alone is struggling and having more and more of these types of offenders. A serial killer and their motives as to why they commit these horrendous crimes, give people a good definition of…
Bubbles in the business world are characterized by rapid expansion and then a following contraction. Enron falsified profits, took extreme risks, and rigged investments, all so that they could increase the size of their bubble. However, the bubble could only grow so large. Some were able to escape the bubble before it popped, but in the end nobody remained unscathed. The Enron bubble is a testament to the need for some regulation. Enron employed many questionable accounting practices to…
Jeffrey Dahmer is a modern cannibal who lived in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and was convicted of the murder, dismemberment, rape and cannibalism of 17 men and boys, taking place between 1978 and 1991. While being tried for his crimes, Dahmer’s attorney explains that ‘[Dahmer] ate body parts so that these poor people he killed would become alive in him again” (Tithecott, 67). Dahmer’s murderous trail began when he was a high school student in Ohio. His murders include five states and Germany. Dahmer is…
The case in interest is commonly known as “The Night Stalker” case. Involved in the case is Richard Ramirez, a serial killer -- convicted of 13 murders, five attempted murders, 11 sexual assaults and 14 burglaries. At a young age, Ramirez was exposed to satanic worship by a cousin (who was a soldier, discharged from Vietnam). The cousin had filled his head with stories of mutilation and torture of the woman along with graphic pictures from the war. This led him to commit petty crimes and form a…
In the early 2000s, the business world was rocked by a series of scandals in the business sector and many of which involved suspicious accounting activities. One of the largest of these failures was a company known as Enron. Due to their involvement with Enron, the Enron debacle is sometimes referred to as the Enron/ Arthur Andersen scandal. The inclusion of Arthur Andersen in the Enron scandal was due in part to the fact that Andersen handled the accounting for Enron for approximately sixteen…
A past filled with childhood abuse both physical and sexual, assume an incredible part in transforming serial killers. Their cultural conditioning and relationship with parents are also to be factored in. Serial killers are conscience-deprived people who draw pleasure by killing others; while some kill people who belong to a specific gender or age, some choose their victims precisely based on a particular personality trait. It is not often victims are chosen at random although it happens. Vlad…
H.H.Holmes was one of America's first serial killers. He killed a large amount of victims by making a hotel designed to be a murder house. His tactics are the reason why so many people learn about him and why he is still remembered today. H.H.Holmes was born in Gilmanton, New Hampshire on May 16th, 1861. His birth name was Herman Webster Mudgett. His parents were named Levi Horton Mudgett and Theodate Page Price. Holmes had three siblings, two older and one younger. His older sister was named…
Jeffrey Dahmer was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1990. Jeffrey Dahmer displayed troubling behavior before and after surgery. He committed his first murder in 1978 and was arrested multiple of times before his second victim. In addition to killing the men and teenage boys he lured home, Jeffrey also mutilated, photographed and performed sexual acts on the victims’ corpses, keeping the body parts as mementos. Dahmer was captured and was sentenced 16 years in prison, but a fellow cellmate killed…